Editing Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States (section)

===Deism and the Founding Fathers===
[[Deism]] was a religious philosophy in common currency in colonial times, and some Founding Fathers (most notably [[Thomas Paine]], who was an explicit proponent of it, and [[Benjamin Franklin]], who spoke of it in his Autobiography) are identified more or less with this system. [[Thomas Jefferson]] became a deist in later life, and [[George Washington]], [[John Adams]], [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[James Madison]], [[James Monroe]], and [[John Tyler]] are often identified as having some degree of deistic beliefs.<ref name="adherents" />